Can the naming hypothesis be falsified?
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Horne and Lowe argued in their paper that the concept of stimulus equivalence can be better understood by turning their attention to the study of naming. They supported this claim with controversial explanation supporting naming as the basic unit of both verbal behavior and derived stimulus relations. However, their naming account of stimulus equivalence suffer from certain weaknesses, most critical of which is the account's potential for empirical disconfirmation.
Publication Name: Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior
Subject: Sociology and social work
ISSN: 0022-5002
Year: 1996
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Methodological issues in the study of naming
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Horne and Lowe provide a well-developed and controversial account of the naming hypothesis. The three main elements of their hypothesis are equivalence in nonhumans, equivalence in nonverbal humans and naming manipulations and equivalence in verbal humans. Although Horne and Lowe argue that existing evidence supports the naming hypothesis, methodological problems that made critical experiments hard to perform.
Publication Name: Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior
Subject: Sociology and social work
ISSN: 0022-5002
Year: 1996
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